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Susan Elizabeth Hough
Research Geophysicist, USGS Pasadena Field Office
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Every Historical Earthquake is Historical in Its Own Way
THE VALUE OF MACROSEISMIC INTENSITY DATA: FROM EARTHQUAKE SOURCE CHARACTERIZATION TO GROUND MOTION AND SEISMIC HAZARD ESTIMATION AND TESTING II POSTER
seismology | 15 december 2023
Susan E. Hough, Roger Bilham
As increasingly sophisticated computational methods are developed to analyze historical earthquakes, it is critical to appreciate both the value and t...
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How Well Can Macroseismic Intensities Constrain Moment Magnitude?
THE VALUE OF MACROSEISMIC INTENSITY DATA: FROM EARTHQUAKE SOURCE CHARACTERIZATION TO GROUND MOTION AND SEISMIC HAZARD ESTIMATION AND TESTING I ORAL
seismology | 14 december 2023
Madeleine C Lucas, Susan E. Hough, Seth Stein, Lea...
Macroseismic data are valuable, and often required, to constrain earthquake source parameters for historical (pre-instrumental) earthquakes. Current m...
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Why does PSHA overpredict historically observed shaking data?
SEISMOLOGY CONTRIBUTIONS: EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTIONS AND ENGINEERING SEISMOLOGY III ORAL
seismology | 15 december 2022
Leah Salditch, Molly M. Gallahue, James S. Neely,...
Probabilistic seismic hazard assessments (PSHA) based on current practice consistently appear to overpredict historically observed shaking data. Compa...
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Which Earthquakes Are the Most Damaging? An Examination of Community-Collected ‘Did You Feel It’ Data in California, USA
INTEGRATED STUDIES OF GEOSPHERES' INTERACTION ASSOCIATED WITH PRE-EARTHQUAKE PROCESSES, GEOHAZARDS, AND SPACE WEATHER BY GROUND AND SPACE-BORNE MULTI-INSTRUMENT OBSERVATIONS I ORAL
natural hazards | 12 december 2022
Jenna Chaffeur, Sarah E. Minson, Jessie K. Saunder...
When will I feel the big one? is a question that earthquake scientists are all too familiar with. But while waiting for the big one to occur, people w...
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Exploring site effects in probabilistic seismic hazard maps
SEISMOLOGY CONTRIBUTIONS: EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTIONS AND ENGINEERING SEISMOLOGY I ORAL
seismology | 13 december 2021
Molly M. Gallahue, Leah Salditch, Madeleine C Luc...
Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment (PSHA) generates one of the most important products produced by the seismological community for earthquake haz...
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Assessment of seismic hazard map performance for California through comparison with historical shaking data
STUDENT ENGAGEMENT TO ENHANCE DEVELOPMENT: OUTSTANDING STUDENT PRESENTATION AWARD WINNERS FROM FALL MEETING 2019 VII ELIGHTNING
union | 15 december 2020
Molly M. Gallahue, Leah Salditch, Madeleine C Luc...
Probabilistic seismic hazard assessments are important for earthquake hazard mitigation. They forecast levels of earthquake shaking that should be exc...
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Should all of Nepal be treated as having the same earthquake hazard?
HOW CAN WE IMPLEMENT AGU’S "SCIENCE FOR SOLUTIONS" TO ADDRESS SOCIETAL PROBLEMS
union | 11 december 2020
Leah Salditch, Seth Stein, Susan E. Hough
Current earthquake hazard maps for Nepal predict substantial variations in hazard within the nation, with noticeable differences between maps. An alte...
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Earthquake Immunity or False Sense of Security: A Historical California Retrospective
CENTENNIAL OVERVIEW: STATUS AND PROSPECTS OF EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI FORECASTING AND HAZARD ASSESSMENT I
natural hazards | 12 december 2019
Susan E. Hough
A common theme in early 20th century conversations about earthquakes was that the occurrence of a large earthquake effectively immunized a region from...
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